Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-03-11
LOCAL NEWS.


For this district fair, warmer weather and
norlherly winds.
DEATH OF JUDGE SINCLAIR.--A dispatch
received at this office to day says that Judge
Charles Z. Sinclair, prominent citizen
and member of the bar of Prince William
county, was found dead on the floor at his
home in Manassas early this morning.
Judge Sinclair was in apparently good
health when he retired last night and his
death is supposed to have resulted from ap-
oplexy. In 1851 he WAS appointed United
States District Judge of Utah, by President
Buchanan. and during the war was in the
secret service of the Confederate States. He
represented this district with distinction in
the Virginia State Senate, both prior to and
after the war, and made an eryiable repu-
tation both as lawyer and an orator. He
was 80 years old and had many friends and
acquaintance in this city.
TIE AQUEDUcT BRIDGE.-The new bridge
connecting Georgetown with tho Virginia
shore of the Potomac is to be built on the
massive stone piers of the AQueduct on the
following plan Commencing at the north
end in Georgetown the new structure will
consist OF one through span, of about 100
resting on an abutment and q pier to be
built about 127 feet of tressle over the ex-
isting north abutment; nine deCk-spans OF
about Ia feet each over the river, resting
cu eight piers and two abutments already
built about 700 linear feet of earth en-
hankment on the southern approach, the
masonry OF the south abutment to be car
lied up as retaining wall to sustain the
end OF the enbankment. The substructure
to be built in addition to that now existing
will be an abutment and pier for the l6O
foot span at the north end of the bridge, CO.
ping for the present piers and abutments,
and retaining wall on the south abut'
ment.
The bridge and trestle will be entirely OF
wrought iron or steel, except the floor Joists,
boring and wheel guards, which Will be Of
wood All the spans will be pin-connected
trusses. The upper and lower chords will be
horizontal and parallel. The design Tor the
bridge is to be submitted by the bidder, SUB
lsct to the limitations contained in the spec
iicatious The clear width of the roadway
will be "a feet. with two sidewalks. each SIX
feet wide in the clear. On the through
span there shall be clear head room of II
feet above the floor. The through span
must be arranged so as to give a clear head
room over the water surface of the Chesa-
paake and Ohio canal of II feet to the low
est member of the bridge. Each deck-span
will consist Of two tTusses, conferred at or
near the sides of the roadway, the sidewalks
being placed outside the trusses and sup
ported by an overhanging part of the floor
beam
The southern approach, which is to be
built under separate, contract, will be an
smbankment of suitable earth, filled over
;he existing causeway to such grade as the
engineer may designate, meeting the grade
of the roadway at the bridge. The embank-
ment will be &c feet wide on top, with
side.slopes of l to l. The filling will
be put on in layers of about feet, to be
lower at the center than at the sides. such
portions OF the side-slopes as the engineer
may deem necessary are to BIO paved with
paving of Potomac or other suitable quarry
Stone, to be not less than inches deep, the
upper surfaces forming the slope! TO be
comparatively smooth. The stones are TO
be laid on edge, the length parallel to the
roadway, and so as to form duraoie ana
substantial sope-pavng. All intersilces
are to be filled in with spawls or sand.
The existing wooden superstrucure OF
the bridge and approaches, except the
lumber of the canal trunk, trestIe and such
bracipg as may be taken out the govern
ment. is to be removed by and will then be.
come the property of the contractor. All
timber. iron, and other materials pertaining
to the old bridge are to be removed from
the line ofthe work, but sound timber taken
from it may be used for flooring the new
bridge, in the opinion OF the engineer it is
suitable. The cost of removing the old
work will be included in the price Tor the
rejection of the new. The old bridge is
not to be kept open for travel during the
construction of the new one.